J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Nantes, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nantes, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Nantes, Brittany 1826
D23070
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 33
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in faint red ink ‘33’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 33’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the lower half of this page a view of the Pont Pirmil at Nantes seen from the south-west. The pages of this volume feature many depictions of this city, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Nantes, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-nantes-brittany-r1184898, accessed 08 May 2024.